From Wikipedia:
Frederic Morton (October 5, 1924 – April 20, 2015) was an Austrian-born American writer. Born Fritz Mandelbaum in Vienna, Morton was the son of a blacksmith who specialized in forging (manufacturing) imperial medals. In the wake of the Anschluss of 1938, his father was arrested, but later released. The family fled to Britain in 1939 and migrated to New York City the next year, when the senior Mandelbaum also changed the family name in order to be able to join an anti-Semitic labor union.
Morton worked as a baker but began studying literature in 1949. He returned to Austria in 1962 to marry his fiancée, Marcia, whom he had met at college.
From 1959, Morton worked as a columnist for several American periodicals including The New York Times, Esquire, and Playboy. He died at the Hilton hotel in Vienna at the age of 90 on April 20, 2015.
DESCRIPTION:
305 pages
8 5/8 x 5 3/4 inches
7th printing hardcover with dustjacket
CONDITION:
This hard-cover book is in very good condition with a good dustjacket. The hardcover (blue paper covered boards with red cloth spine) is clean and shows slight wear or rubbing of edges. The interior is excellent with no names, marks, underlining, tears or odor. The paper shows little to no age toning. The hinges and binding are excellent with no loose or missing pages.
The dustjacket is price cut with light staining or spotting and with the corners and edges rubbed. There is a small tear and crease in lower front edge The tear has been stabilized on the back with acid-free archival tissue tape.
From the dust jacket description:
Probably no other family in the last two centuries has been so constantly in the center of Europe’s great events as have the Rothschilds. Probably no other family has contained such varied and spectacular personalities. Surely no other family has had anything like their wealth, influence and prestige. In this book, Frederic Morton, one of our notable younger novelists, has written and intimate family portrait. Exercising the skill that Aldous Huxley has called a”a gift for admirably vivid and complete characterization,” Mr. Morton has re-created the men and women of six startling generations.
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